In the novel, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime written by Mark Haddon, he tells a captivating narration that is given through an autistic child’s, named Christopher, unique point of view of everyday life. Christopher who is a fifth-teen year old boy diagnosed with Autism, knows all his countries in the world and their capital cities, also every prime number up to 7,057. He is also a brilliant boy in A levels math, and wants to pursue his dreams as a astronaut. As the story progresses, Christopher find his neighbor dog, named wellington, dead with a pitch fork impaled in its neck. He turns to his favorite logical character, Sherlock Holmes, to track down the serial killer in his written journal, which is an idea he
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In this evaluate critique I will be discussing the novels language, imagery, setting and themes expressed in the story as I journey to the amazing narration through originality, humor, and compelling imagery of Christopher’s development from dependency to becoming independent. In the story, Mark Haddon use’s a well-detailed detached tone to express Christopher’s unusual perspective thoughts. Christopher’s autism mental condition causes him to see the world in a uncommon way, he creates logical thoughts which processes through his mind as he explain why he feels a certain way towards a subject or a situation. Even though we are brought upon the attention of finding the serial killer of who had killed Wellington, we are distracted by his attention of why he cannot recognize facial expressions and the emotions in others, why he doesn’t get metaphors, why he doesn’t like strangers, why the color red is better than the color yellow and brown and how it affect his day, and why he likes his life in a logical order, so most of the …show more content…
Christopher claims that he can see everything, so places he is familiar with such as school, home, bus, shop, street, he seen almost everything beforehand and all he has to do is look at the things to see if something has changed or moved. He gives us a example of a familiar setting and something that has moved for example “one week, the shakes pare globe poster had fallen down in the classroom at school and you could tell it had been put back slightly to the right and there were three little circles of Blu-Tack on the wall down the left handed side of the poster,”(140). Places that are unfamiliar to Christopher un-liking is very anxiety provoking to him, For instance, when Christopher was looking for the train station, but he has realized he had gotten himself lost, he imagined himself a map, locating and marking specific areas he’s in to reach his goal. Also, on page 140 it showed a map or diagram of the specific area he was tracking down, so he knows if he had passed here already. He said people are different from him because they do what is called glancing and not actually noticing every single little detail in where they are at. Christopher also mentioned in a new environment when there’s to much information hitting his brain like the signs at the train station he closes his eyes and moans to block any further useless information
In this evaluate critique I will be discussing the novels language, imagery, setting and themes expressed in the story as I journey to the amazing narration through originality, humor, and compelling imagery of Christopher’s development from dependency to becoming independent. In the story, Mark Haddon use’s a well-detailed detached tone to express Christopher’s unusual perspective thoughts. Christopher’s autism mental condition causes him to see the world in a uncommon way, he creates logical thoughts which processes through his mind as he explain why he feels a certain way towards a subject or a situation. Even though we are brought upon the attention of finding the serial killer of who had killed Wellington, we are distracted by his attention of why he cannot recognize facial expressions and the emotions in others, why he doesn’t get metaphors, why he doesn’t like strangers, why the color red is better than the color yellow and brown and how it affect his day, and why he likes his life in a logical order, so most of the …show more content…
Christopher claims that he can see everything, so places he is familiar with such as school, home, bus, shop, street, he seen almost everything beforehand and all he has to do is look at the things to see if something has changed or moved. He gives us a example of a familiar setting and something that has moved for example “one week, the shakes pare globe poster had fallen down in the classroom at school and you could tell it had been put back slightly to the right and there were three little circles of Blu-Tack on the wall down the left handed side of the poster,”(140). Places that are unfamiliar to Christopher un-liking is very anxiety provoking to him, For instance, when Christopher was looking for the train station, but he has realized he had gotten himself lost, he imagined himself a map, locating and marking specific areas he’s in to reach his goal. Also, on page 140 it showed a map or diagram of the specific area he was tracking down, so he knows if he had passed here already. He said people are different from him because they do what is called glancing and not actually noticing every single little detail in where they are at. Christopher also mentioned in a new environment when there’s to much information hitting his brain like the signs at the train station he closes his eyes and moans to block any further useless information